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The Sahara Of Africa

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
November
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

S W I 't'llJ TT IJ1 I WvV ltv ■■ ■ v ■ w I ice we mcmioncd the case of a slave boy New Orleans, somenine or len yeara iJd, am 10 was whipped in jail till Iii3 life wasénngëred. He was suspected ot h&ñ; stolen co watch. As lic wns reiurninj; fiom the jiil roogh the city to tllö house of his master, t mainiedatid rh'nngled condition attracted ' blic notice; he was, by an urder frorn „p rder BiMwin, taken frorn the servAntofthe ihi limifT, in vh ose charge he was, oncl sent '.ö wl ; Charity tíospiíal, where ho remained co r c.i re for a long time. The press of the ï city cornmented freely and Indlgnantiy on the atrocily of tlie outrnge perpetrated a persod so yonng-so physically unable bear such trehthient. The plaihtiff came e' for a full 8hare of the enoral viliiperation, u' it was -pnerallv asserted ahd bcüevcd that j pc ivae by his order nnd with his knowledge dr d consoht thnt tlie was fo orülly treated. hj; the Tropic dfthe 9th, 12 til, ahd ilh of n ne last, the subject ws edltorially ;nted ön. The plaintiff aüeging thnt the :icle8 in question were calculatcd to injure . i character, Sec. entered Ftiit ngainst the itor, clnim'.n from hírii 8300 dRir.npès. The trial commenced on tlie 3d, of Sep. ot mher. Dr. lictor) was callcd nnd sworn. He tes ñau to the lacernted condition of the boy. - c is popterinrs and np to the tmall of the ft ïck, were covèred with a serips óf leep o oonds - some oF thfem apparently recently iflicted, and in a state of supptiration. The '] oy seenu-d haggard nnd weTk; his pulse wes )vv, and he expressed a fear thnt unlcss p r care wns taken of him, lock-jaw mightJ nsue. Without inqniring into the matter, ie orde red thot he be taken to the Charity l loai al.Dr WedorstrnhfU, the resitlent physician, srroborntcd the tfestimnny oí' Dr. Pictn. Plauchard, keeper of the First á ality pólice j'iil, sworn. On the 8th of j c fay last the boy was brouptit by oneoflhe c rst Municipality pólice nnd Beriraild Coombs ( ü the vill. Coombs said his watch nad been , tolen; thct the boy, (SylVeste by nume,) had f onfessed to have sttílert it, nnd he wished to wve him whippod to mokë Irim teil what he lid witli it. Witness thi-n ol-dtred liim to e flopg'd; he liad pot five or six lnshes vilh the pnddlr, wheti he aid he would go ' ivith ihchi und poiiuout wherethe Wtitch was in the closet; they then coased to flog him, and Coombs look him nway; he broiiglit innt back sayino; he could nnt find ihe walch nnd Bgain he ordered him to be fíogged: the paddie was appüed to him n tecond lime; he arol úk !nhes, when lic lold ihetn he would tll thcm where the walch was he admitid tiiat he did hot teil Wie trut h p-evioosly; but that he w-öuld now show where it wua hid behind the cistern: - Coornba took liim away, bnt bröught liim back thnt they t'id not iind the walch; from this day till the 15th witness was enBcred in Judge Preral'n coun and f Isewhcre, on the business of the 1 ipality. He nnderstood from his depufy that Mr. De Neufbouror cnme to the j.iil on ihé 0 ii, nnd had 25 UahCI pt:t on to llic boy wi'.li llm m-Imti fhnf lio nnmt nmtin nn flio iilK

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